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Friday, July 4. 2008

Yahoo! oneSearch Street Campaign, Friendly but not Relevant

Yahoo SEA just teamed up with the leading mobile operator in Vietnam Mobifone on mobile search services. Along with TVC campaigns young locals could see promotion couples riding old Vespa bikes carrying iPhone mockups. At first sight, it seems to be a cool move since the creative guys had associated the mobile search service with the hottest phone and trendy bike. But if you own an iPhone, want to surf web the first choice should be Wifi then GPRS/EDGE. Even with low speed GPRS iPhone owners can use Safari to search with Google. More than 50% of iPhone users are gadget savvy, the others just use iPhone for fashionable reasons so that using oneSearch with iPhone should not be their choice. In fact you can find Nokia N81 co-branding with Yahoo Mobile page, why not use it consistently. One good option is to explore the BlackBerry segment with increasing number of young users. BB owners are heavy GPRS users with many opt for flat packages.

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Defined tags for this entry: Google, Mobile, Search Engine, Yahoo

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Monday, May 5. 2008

Yahoo Vietnam Launches TV Ad Campaign, Can Old Way Help?

Yahoo SEA just launched new services specifically for Vietnamese Internet users such as Yahoo!360plus blogging, Yahoo!Music. Along with the appointment of Vietnam General Manager, Yahoo Vietnam runs a TV ad campaign with TVC storyline from a Vietnamese fairy tale. It is a cool TVC by traditional creative production standards, but can it help Yahoo gain a fair search market share in a Google dominated territory. I think spending ad dollars on TV is a waste of money by Yahoo since Vietnamese TV audience is mainly old generation people and light Internet users. It seems that Yahoo still follows the pattern used in the US ten years ago. Vietnam is an emerging market but the local Internet generation has much exposure to viral marketing, digital rumors, peer reviews so that Yahoo's top down approach should not work here. (While I writing this post, Yahoo's share fall sharply after Microsoft backs away from takeover bid, adds much pressure on Yahoo management)

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Friday, April 4. 2008

Social Networking Services for Vietnamese Women

One day after Yahoo announced its Shine portal for women, in Vietnam the web 2.0 startup Vinalive also stirs the social networking competition with its PhunuNet targeting dynamic Vietnamese women. It seems that PhunuNet is following the simple but successful model of iVillage.

While social networking sites are in a fierce competition seeking users and monetization with such names as Tamtay, Yobanbe, Cyworld, Zoomban etc., targeting women segment is a smart way to differentiate. PhunuNet offers useful content for women’s interests, including Love & Sex, Fashion & Beauty, Health, Lifestyle, Career & Work, Entertainment & Celebrities, Travel, Cooking, Pregnancy & Babycare, Brides, Horoscope etc. It also offers social Q&A, video sharing, groups, events and blogging tools. Not just an iVillage clone, PhunuNet has good localization approach tailored to the taste of Vietnamese women. In fact PhunuNet currently looks like a content portal rather than a web 2.0 services. PhunuNet will have to improve a lot to be a good web 2.0 product rather than a women portal like it is now.

Vietnamese startups should not overlook the women segment in Vietnam, which may total 50% of Vietnamese Internet population of 20 millions. Women-oriented media channels account for the lion’s share of Vietnamese advertising expenses on TV and magazines. VCs are also rushing to women oriented websites in the United States. NBC Universal acquired iVillage, the most popular women’s site along with its other Internet properties for $600 million in 2006.Glam Media, the number one women’s property on the Net as per the latest comScore ranking raised $18.5 million in Series C funding from Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures (DAG), Accel Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, WaldenVC, and Information Capital (Chairman & CEO Samir Arora’s fund). Glam Media had also raised $10 million in Series B led by Accel Partners with Draper Fisher Jurvetson and WaldenVC in 2004.

The question now is can VCs in Vietnam see the value of this potential segment?

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Defined tags for this entry: clone, cyworld, iVillage, PhunuNet, Social Network, Yahoo

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Thursday, July 12. 2007

Yahoo Got PR Support From Online News Sites

I just stumbled across an article from one of the leading local news site Vietnamnet, put Yahoo as absolute winner in Web 2.0 scene in Vietnam. Ironically Yahoo Vietnam is associated with another competitor, online newspapers Tuoitre.

Some ideas to develop virtual communities and social networks have been realised, for example Blog Viet, Young Generation, Xahoi, Cyworld. Websites for searching for and sharing video clips, mp3 files and information like Clip, Bamboo, Gneet have become quite popular. However, those sites just temporarily focus on entertainment services, perhaps because it is easy to see effectiveness in this area.

Is it error or intention as the author put Cyworld as local newly setup social network.

Vnspoke, Vietspace, Ngoisaoblog, cyworld, and Young Generation and other social networks and communities of Vietnamese have modest numbers of users in comparison with Yahoo! 360 or GooglePage.

Why he put GooglePage the same league with Yahoo360? It should be Blogger (blogspot) along with Yahoo360.

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Friday, July 6. 2007

Social Content Production by Teen Group

Nhat Ky Vang Anh, an interactive soap opera made by Vietnam Television VTV, is one of few TV programs could make Vietnamese teens interested (presumably from the broadcaster, but I think their parents are main viewers). Licensing from Portugal's BeActive, part 2 of the series is getting downward rating. Based on the story, a teen group started a self produced series called Nhat Ky Fank, using YouTube embedded into social network Yahoo360. It is truly UGC that video sharing sites should promote. However, clip.vn is not their choice. Meanwhile Nhat Ky Vang Anh clips are being uploaded to clip.vn and this could make it face some legal trouble from BeActive since web licensing is another package.

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Wednesday, July 4. 2007

Microsoft celebrates Independence Day with MSN Vietnam Portal

Microsoft Online Services Group Southeast Asia today announced teaming up with local partners to launch MSN services in Vietnamese early 2008. National broadcaster VTV will provide general news sources while Laodong Newspapers in charge of business and finance news. Initial plan is to launc h the portal in second quarter of 2007 but delayed till 2008 for some reasons. The collaboration made me think of old media giants partnership against Google's YouTube. After three months, only MySpace in the alliance moved with M ySpaceTV, a pure play battle. Since Yahoo Vietnam had started local services with strong base of messenger and Yahoo360 users, how MSN Vietnam get a piece of the pie.

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Thursday, April 26. 2007

Can Yobanbe Survive?

The leading Vietnamese game operator Vinagame launched a Yahoo360 clone yesterday. Yobanbe is planned to open beta April 23rd but delay to 25th due to fixing technical backend. Still some problems with forgot password and sign-up as account management shared with gamers data warehouse. Yobanbe even lures Yahoo360 users with import instructions as hot news. The reasons that Yobanbe could face hard future:

The brand name is not cool.
Launch date: just before long Holiday, Vietnamese people will take 6 days off until May 2nd and traveling is the top choice. Cyworld Vietnam was opened 10 days earlier.
Associate with hardcore gamers: Yahoo360 users are female dominated while Vinagame gamers are almost males.
Revenue model: what is revenue source for Yobanbe while Vinagame is used to collecting gamers' subscription fees.

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Saturday, March 24. 2007

Yahoo and Ebay who moves first?

Yahoo! Singapore Pte. Ltd. has Vietnamese version recently, some sections are being developing, News was being sourced from largest circulation newspaper Tuoi Tre. Ebay does not want to be late in this potential market, Ebay Vietnamese version are live now. It seems that Ebay is betting on Vietnam after losing to Yahoo! in other Asian markets. In order to beat Ebay in Vietnam, Yahoo should find out local partnership as it did in other Asian markets. Who are the targets? Will IDG Vietnam bring its Chodientu to the table?

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Wednesday, March 7. 2007

The First Vietnamese YouTube Clone

Following many China firms cloning YouTube recently, Vega Technology Group launched Clip in February 2007 as the first Vietnamese YouTube clone. The user interface is similar to almost other YouTube clones. Color scheme is exactly the same with Chinese YoQoo. Clip streaming speed is better than YouTube at Clip site (access from Vietnam), but no significant different at users' blog as most Vietnamese bloggers use non Vietnamese blog services (Yahoo 360, Opera, Wordpress, Blogger and others descending order). There is no revenue model at Clip now and no social networking partner yet. We would see some MySpace, Facebook clones soon so that Clip could team up.

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Entries tagged as Yahoo

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Friday, July 4. 2008

Yahoo! oneSearch Street Campaign, Friendly but not Relevant

Monday, May 5. 2008

Yahoo Vietnam Launches TV Ad Campaign, Can Old Way Help?

Friday, April 4. 2008

Social Networking Services for Vietnamese Women

Thursday, July 12. 2007

Yahoo Got PR Support From Online News Sites

Friday, July 6. 2007

Social Content Production by Teen Group

Wednesday, July 4. 2007

Microsoft celebrates Independence Day with MSN Vietnam Portal

Thursday, April 26. 2007

Can Yobanbe Survive?

Saturday, March 24. 2007

Yahoo and Ebay who moves first?

Wednesday, March 7. 2007

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